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AI · February 23, 2026

TTSLab – A voice AI agent and TTS lab running in the browser via WebGPU

I built TTSLab — a free, open-source tool for running text-to-speech and speech-to-text models directly in the browser using WebGPU and WASM. No API keys, no backend, no data leaves your machine. When you open the site, you'll hear it immediately — the landing page auto-generates speech from three different sentences right in your browser, no setup required. You can then try any model yourself: type text, hit generate, hear it instantly. Models download once and get cached locally. The most experimental feature: a fully in-browser Voice Agent. It chains speech-to-text → LLM → text-to-speech,…

TTSLab – A voice AI agent and TTS lab running in the browser via WebGPU launched on February 23, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,882 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

TTSLab lets you run and compare TTS & STT models directly in your browser using WebGPU and WASM — no server, no API keys, no data collection. Your text and audio never leave your device. Run Kokoro 82M, Whisper, Moonshine, and more. Models are downloaded once and cached locally. Compare voices side by side, run benchmarks, or chat with a Voice Agent — all on-device. Built for developers, researchers, and product teams. Fully open source (MIT).

Test TTS & STT models in your browser. No server. No data collection. Powered by WebGPU.

In the maker’s words, at launch

I built TTSLab — a free, open-source tool for running text-to-speech and speech-to-text models directly in the browser using WebGPU and WASM. No API keys, no backend, no data leaves your machine. When you open the site, you'll hear it immediately — the landing page auto-generates speech from three different sentences…

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